love us. we obey him because he loved us first and we're responding out of that love in amazement that he could love us. fear is the enemy of faith. well, everything has to have an opposing force in the earth and i can't really think of anything that doesn't. you know, for faith to work and be valuable, there has to be fear coming against it. you say, "well, i'd rather not have all this opposition." well, you know what? you might be surprised, if you had no opposition, you might be a worse mess than what you'd-- or we might be worse messes than what we even are. i think of the bee who was taken on a space shuttle into flight to go to the--some other planet and in the weightless atmosphere with no gravity, they never had to flap a wing, they just floated around in the weightless atmosphere, no opposition, no wing flapping, just floating around. and the end of the story was he enjoyed the ride, but he died. >> [laughing] >> joyce: that's exactly what would happen to us if all we could do is--if